759
429
Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden/dp/1250237238
6 years ago
721
California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/technology/california-passes-landmark-bill-to-remake-gig-economy.html
670
964
California Approves Statewide Rent Control
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/california-rent-control.html
606
384
Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/first-water-found-in-habitable-exoplanets-atmosphere-hubble-kepler-k2-18b/
543
366
Day Trading for a Living?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423101
507
161
What is the new Apple U1 chip?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-new-Apple-U1-chip-and-why-is-it-important/answer/Brian-Roemmele?ch=10&share=7e467f08&srid=Pi3
444
163
A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java
https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
423
303
Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/technology/sim-swap-jack-dorsey-hack.html
408
412
Turn off DoH, Firefox
https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/
362
200
Stop Infinite Scrolling
https://hackernoon.com/stop-infinite-scrolling-on-your-website-now-ie6rg31eu
329
113
Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective’ way to kill parasite
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/sep/05/malaria-breakthrough-as-scientists-find-highly-effective-way-to-kill-parasite
326
247
Why is Rust slightly slower than C?
https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages/blob/master/Rust-vs-C-performance.md
309
198
Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lse-m-a-hong-kong-exchanges/hong-kong-exchanges-bids-39-billion-to-take-over-london-stock-exchange-idUSKCN1VW0YP
271
127
Fairphone 3 Teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+3+Teardown/125573
267
120
How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
261
110
Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-finally-nail-the-protons-size-and-hope-dies-20190911/
257
135
Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/10/clubhouse-announces-new-collaboration-tool-and-free-version-of-its-project-management-platform/
248
112
Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System
https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171627233066143744
240
10
Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/caniuse-and-mdn-compat-data-collaboration/
216
57
Harvesting LinkedIn data for fun and profit
http://cloudinvent.com/blog/harvesting-linkedin-data-for-fun-profit/
205
39
Metronomes in JavaScript
https://meowni.ca/posts/metronomes
204
349
Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/tech-offers
202
The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
58
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE
187
65
Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (2017)
https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc
186
148
The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/how-antitrust-became-pro-pollution-tool/597712/
182
211
Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/09/06/forward-motion/
181
Update on AB5
https://www.uber.com/newsroom/ab5-update/
168
34
Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2019/01/25/death-sentence-for-a-life-of-service/
164
91
NY Payroll Company Vanishes with $35M
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/ny-payroll-company-vanishes-with-35-million/
64
People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-bones-about-it-people-recognize-objects-by-visualizing-their-skeletons/
153
66
I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
https://scotthelme.co.uk/extended-validation-not-so-extended/
151
63
Are black holes made of dark energy?
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-black-holes-dark-energy.html
149
241
McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49664633
140
The speed reading fallacy: the case for slow reading
https://nesslabs.com/speed-reading
138
230
What happens to tech workers when their skills become obsolete?
https://qz.com/work/1702462/what-happens-to-tech-workers-when-their-skills-become-obsolete/
137
96
Two California hikers found a family's message in a bottle and helped save them
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/us/california-hikers-bottle-message-search-trnd/index.html
136
49
The iPhone and Apple's Services Strategy
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-iphone-and-apples-services-strategy/
26
Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spanish-stonehenge-drought
134
70
Walking Truck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_truck
131
61
How to repair the parts that explode in Lenovo yoga laptops
https://adammunich.com/how-to-repair-the-parts-that-explode-in-lenovo-yoga-laptops/
121
38
Rich Hickey on Datomic (2012) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYfcyvSpEQ
4
Natural Language in Python Using SpaCy: An Introduction
https://blog.dominodatalab.com/natural-language-in-python-using-spacy/?r=1
75
Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20941191
94
Socrates Was Against Writing (2011)
http://apt46.net/2011/05/18/socrates-was-against-writing/
95
123
How we will know when a recession is coming?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/06/how-will-we-know-when-a-recession-is-coming/
72
Bugs That Became Features
https://birdeatsbug.com/5-bugs-that-became-features
A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java